Jason Briner, PhD, is director of the Paleoclimate Lab in the UB
Department of Geology. He and his students use glacial and
lacustrine records to study climate change in the Arctic. The
team’s research has found that ice sheets and glaciers
changed size rapidly in response to past temperature changes on
Earth. These findings, which have been published in journals
including Science and Nature
Geoscience, provide a rare glimpse into how ice on Earth
responded to climate events in prehistoric times. Briner is a
member of the Geological Society of America, American Quaternary
Association and American Geophysical Union.

Jason P. Briner, PhDAssociate Professor of Geology
College of Arts and Sciences